Everyone wears this short-sleeved shirt. People abbreviate "tea" to "T" and call this shirt a T-shirt, that is, a T-shirt. The second argument is that in the17th century, British sailors were ordered to add short sleeves to their vests to cover their armpit hair so as not to be unsightly; There is also a saying that the sleeves and the upper body form a "T" shape, that is, the clothing is a T-shaped seam collar, hence the name. 19 13, the us navy stipulated that sailors should wear short-sleeved white undershirts under overalls, one of the reasons was to cover the thick chest hair of sailors. There are many kinds of raw materials for T-shirts, including cotton, linen, wool, silk, chemical fiber and their blended fabrics, especially cotton, linen or linen-cotton blended fabrics, which have the advantages of breathability, softness, comfort, coolness, sweat absorption and heat dissipation. T-shirts are often knitwear. However, due to the changing needs of consumers, the design and production are also being renovated. Therefore, T-shirts made of woven fabrics are also on the market, becoming a new member of the T-shirt family. This kind of T-shirt often adopts rib collar or rib sleeve and rib hem, and is decorated with machine embroidery and trademark, which not only embodies the originality of fashion designers, but also makes the T-shirt unique and adds the beauty of clothing. Among woven T-shirt fabrics, silk fabric is the first choice, which has the characteristics of lightness, softness and smoothness, and is particularly comfortable to wear next to the body. T-shirts are made of silk-like polyester yarn or washed nylon yarn, supplemented by mosaics, which add special style and artistic charm to T-shirts and are deeply loved by young men and women. In addition, there are rayon and rayon interwoven Fuchun spinning, specially treated peach skin polyester imitation silk, warp washed silk and spun silk, all of which are ideal fabrics for T-shirts, and cheap pure cotton fabrics have become the darling of T-shirt fabrics. It has the characteristics of natural and loose wearing, sweat absorption and breathability, no allergic reaction to arms, comfortable wearing and so on. It accounts for the largest proportion in T-shirts, which meets people's psychological requirements of returning to nature and advocating nature.
fashion trend
T-shirts are clothes that people can wear on various occasions, and their styles have changed slightly. If decorated properly, they can add infinite charm. Write your or your idol's name on a light-colored T-shirt with an oily signature in English letters or Chinese Pinyin letters, or draw a few simple and interesting stick figures to look chic. You can also use colorful wool to pick out small broken flowers or simple geometric figures on the two sleeves of a T-shirt, which is very interesting. You can also cut two T-shirts with very different colors in half vertically, exchange them and sew them together to form a special style. Cut off the lower edge of the old T-shirt that is no longer worn, and it can be used as a hair band, floating over the heads of young women, more lively and lovely, full of romantic atmosphere. Through these processes, T-shirts can add endless charm. It is both fashionable and interesting, and has become a major trend today.
According to records, T-shirts first appeared in ancient Rome. In the hard rock restaurant in ancient Rome, there is a T-shirt that Caesar once wore. In 79 AD, Pompeii volcano erupted and buried the restaurant. The real history of modern T-shirts is less than 100 years. T-shirt is the transliteration name of "T-shirt", which retains the English initials "T". Regardless of the origin, the word T-shirt really came out in the 1920s, when it was first included in Weber's dictionary. Because this Chinese-English mixed vocabulary doesn't sound so exotic. Perhaps it is because T-shirts have penetrated into people's daily lives, and people tend to ignore those common things. With a gentle reminder, they were surprised to find that the story originally hidden in the simple objects around them was so interesting.
First love
In spring and summer, when gaudy T-shirts float like clouds in the street, who would have thought that T-shirts were originally underwear worn by workers who did heavy manual work? Generally speaking, men's T-shirts are a bit like women's bras now, which are not easy to expose. Only when they put on sleeveless jumpsuits will they show some true colors. At the beginning of the 20th century, T-shirts were only promoted as underwear in the catalogues of clothing companies. By 1930, although the image of underwear has not changed much, it is obvious that people have begun to try to wear T-shirts outside, which is what people hear as "sailor shirts". Sailors set sail in T-shirts, and the blue ocean and clear sky painted it with the original romantic color.
Idol opportunity
When this unremarkable collarless short-sleeved sweater appeared on the screen with the big star Marlon Brando one day, the excited fans were amazed. A Streetcar Named Desire premiered in new york on February 3rd. 1974. What attracts people is not only Marlon Brando's slightly rough masculinity and bad eyes when he smiles, but also the plain white T-shirt. Elie Katzen, the director of this drama, once revealed mysteriously and proudly that Brando's T-shirt image was not carefully designed in advance, but was obtained by accident. It turned out that Brando accidentally wore it to rehearsal. ...
With the release of 195 1 A Streetcar Named Desire in the United States, the image of Brando white T-shirt has become the same name all over the country. Soft and considerate T-shirts liberate the beauty of men from the boring, monotonous and well-behaved traditional upper-class clothing, and the masculine figure is displayed in the field of vision, becoming a replica of the whole country and even the whole world.
Rebel hero HD
In 1950s, American culture cooperated with Hollywood movies to go to moderns, which virtually promoted the international spread of T-shirt trend. T-shirts, jeans and black leather jackets have created a rebellious hero image, which deeply affects the younger generation and represents the extreme contempt and abandonment of traditional etiquette and high taste. James Dean, wearing a T-shirt and slightly posing as a coat collar, became a great hero in the eyes of rebellious teenagers. In addition, the funny pictures of movie star art carney wearing a white T-shirt and a black vest have deepened people's understanding of the intimate relationship between T-shirts and civilians. Subsequently, a series of movies with the theme of rebellious teenagers adopted T-shirts one after another, which made T-shirts gain unprecedented unique personality and branded with branch culture. Although rebellious characters are often the pre-release of repressed characters in real life, it is one thing to be warmly welcomed in movies, and whether they can be appreciated and imitated by mainstream society is another matter. In fact, T-shirts were not adopted by a few men as daily clothes, and their comfort and hygiene were gradually praised until they found the role of "screen hooligans" in the film industry.
Another kind of madness
The large-scale fashion trend of T-shirts originated in the 1970s. 1973 Women's Fashion Daily Wear Daily claimed that T-shirts were the chief spokesmen of anti-culture in that year. From 65438 to 0975, it is reported that 48 million printed T-shirts flooded the American clothing market, large and small, and this trend has been maintained for many years. The patterns and words on a T-shirt can be printed as long as you can think of them. Humorous advertisements, satirical pranks, self-deprecating ideals, shocking desires and unrestrained modes are all venting. For this seemingly unstoppable trend, some people criticize the attempt to achieve some goals by copying T-shirts as naive. The author sarcastically wrote, "If people don't want to listen to you, how can they be expected to listen to your T-shirt?"
In any case, waves of young people have grown up, but their enthusiasm for T-shirts has not subsided, and the strange prints on T-shirts are no worse than in the past. As far as the material of T-shirt is concerned, various superfine fibers, high-elastic fibers and polymer composites have replaced the original single cotton. T-shirts are worn by people of all ages and are also favored by women. In 1950s and 1960s, in order to pursue comfort, people randomly blurred the functionality and categories of clothing, resulting in casual clothing. What is casual wear? Refers to the general name of clothes worn in spare time and leisure time after work, including country clothes, seaside clothes, sightseeing clothes, fitness sportswear and so on. It is a kind of relaxed, concise and unrestrained clothing. T-shirts are one of them, and people also call them "cultural shirts" in their lives. T-shirts, as casual clothes, have appeared in every corner of the world, and their symbolic significance of anti-traditional culture and anti-system has faded. T-shirts are naturally a good partner for jeans and jackets, but there is nothing wrong with wearing them in leisure suit. You can't list what clothes a T-shirt can match, but what it can't match. T-shirts are very popular It's full of civilians. During the period of 1998, most actors used T-shirts as costumes to show their sympathy for the people in the disaster area. T-shirts are the most fashionable. CK and Ralph Lauren have repeatedly used T-shirt male models as fashion advertising images. Girls with hair dyed, sponge cake mushrooms and G-shock watches on the street also like to wear short and tight psychedelic T-shirts. It is worth mentioning that no matter how fashionable the prints and new fiber T-shirts are, white cotton T-shirts are still very popular, especially in a certain period in the 1980s. It is said that that white T-shirt reminds people of the 1950s, and the youth time will haunt me forever.
Early T-shirts were large in size, and when paired with short skirts, shorts or jeans, the whole combination presented a healthy and energetic feeling. In recent years, small T-shirts that fit well have become popular, replacing large T-shirts, and are closely accompanied by short skirts, shorts and tights, which sing the main theme of summer clothes. This combination can fully show the beautiful figure of women, especially the T-shirt with bare abdomen, which can show the youthful and healthy vitality and is a popular style in summer.